I am writing this mail on behalf of all the Japanese who are concerned with the current U.S.-Japan relations.

I’d like to express my deep disappointment at the New York State Senate adopting the resolution J304-2013: Memorializing a Memorial Monument in the State of New York that pays tribute to those who have become known to the world as ‘Comfort Women’

As you may know, so-called comfort women are the women who worked during World War II as prostitutes for the Japanese military. This fact might sound immoral by present-day standards, but prostitution was a legal business in those days in many countries. Even around U.S. military bases, prostitution agents must also have existed during the periods of Japan occupation, Korean War, and Vietnam War.

However, as many as fifty years after the War, a bogus story was suddenly spread in Korea and Japan — a story that Japanese military abducted many women and forced into prostitution during the War. Nowadays, many Koreans living in the U.S. propagate fabricated stories that more than 200 thousand Korean women were abducted and worked as “sex slaves” during the wartime and that it was equivalent to the Holocaust.

These stories have been proven to be completely fictitious as a result of many researches by scholars and experts. In spite of their longstanding efforts, there has been absolutely no evidence of Japanese military’s coercing Korean women into prostitution against their will.

We cannot allow this kind of propaganda that insults Japan; their pretense hurts our pride and dishonors our ancestors. To protest this malicious gossip, we submitted two petitions to the White House, each with more than 30 thousand signatures, as follows:
“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan”

U.S.-Japan alliance is the cornerstone of peace, security, and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. Anti-Japan propaganda activities based on the fictitious ‘comfort women’ issue do nothing but deteriorate the relationship among U.S., Korea, and Japan. Such movement only alters the situation to the advantage of North Korea and China.

We Japanese, who place a high value on the importance of historical facts as well as U.S.-Japan relationship, therefore protest decisively against the resolution regarding comfort women that is to be submitted to the New York State Assembly.

We know that American people cherish and esteem fairness, justice, and truth. We hope that you will make a truthful, fair, and objective judgment on this issue.

Sincerely yours,
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To the senators and representatives of New York state legislature;

I am writing this message to you on behalf of many concerned Japanese.

I’d like to express my deep disappointment at the New York State Senate adopting the resolution J304-2013: Memorializing a Memorial Monument in the State of New York that pays tribute to those who have become known to the world as ‘Comfort Women’

The term “comfort women” refers simply to prostitutes in wartime. But Koreans have long been promoting a false version of history that Japan abducted hundreds of thousands of Korean women and coerced them into sexual services for Japanese soldiers outside of Japan during World War Ⅱ. This is, for practical and logical reasons, a fictitious version of history.

Japanese government conducted careful investigations and examination of the related documents and listened to the testimony of witnesses from both Japanese and Korean. Based on their careful research, Japanese government officially denied military enforcement. And still, Japanese government made public apologies for former comfort women’s hard experiences.

Despite apologies taken places privately and by the Japanese government, the compensation for former comfort women, or other efforts such as Asian Women’s Fund, Koreans has no intention of forgiveness.

Koreans’ activities such as building comfort women memorials lead to unnecessary racial conflict and suffering of people of Japanese ancestry, and perpetrate the distorted truth to American citizens who are not familiar with this controversial issue between Japan and Korea.

I would like you to know these two petitions to the White House have reached more than 30,000 signatures and still getting more.

Remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan.

To know more about the comfort women issue, please visit the following websites.

What is the “Comfort Women Issue?”

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2015

Mr. Komori of Japanese newspaper being interviewed on the comfort women issue for the PBS series

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2535

GEISHA, TONY BLAIR & COMFORT WOMEN

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2556

We Japanese are strongly against the resolution J304-2013. We believe that the American people cherish and enthusiastically defend fairness, justice and the truth. We hope that the New York State Assembly will make a truthful, fair and objective judgment in regards to this issue.

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I am writing this message on behalf of all the Japanese who are concerned with the current U.S.-Japan relations.

On January 8, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) broadcast a news program in which they reported, under the topic title of “NY assembly to hear ‘Comfort Women’ resolution”, that State Senator Tony Avella and Assemblyman Charles Lavine demanded Japan’s government to apologize for the forced prostitution of women serving the Japanese military during World War II and that they were going to submit their demand in the form of a resolution to the New York legislature. And, according to Jan 17th edition of Sankei, one of the Japanese leading newspapers, they have submitted the concurrent resolution.

As you may know, so-called comfort women are the women who worked during World War II as prostitutes for the Japanese military. This fact might sound immoral by present-day standards, but prostitution was a legal business in those days in many countries. Even around U.S. military bases, prostitution agents must also have existed during the periods of Japan occupation, Korean War, and Vietnam War.

However, as many as fifty years after the War, a bogus story was suddenly spread in Korea and Japan — a story that Japanese military abducted many women and forced into prostitution during the War. Nowadays, many Koreans living in the U.S. propagate fabricated stories that more than 200 thousand Korean women were abducted and worked as “sex slaves” during the wartime and that it was equivalent to the Holocaust. These stories have been proven to be completely fictitious as a result of many researches by scholars and experts. In spite of their longstanding efforts, there has been absolutely no evidence of Japanese military’s coercing Korean women into prostitution against their will.

We cannot allow this kind of propaganda that insults Japan; their pretense hurts our pride and dishonors our ancestors. To protest this malicious gossip, we submitted two petitions to the White House, each with more than 30 thousand signatures, as follows:

“WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan”

U.S.-Japan alliance is the cornerstone of peace, security, and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. Anti-Japan propaganda activities based on the fictitious ‘comfort women’ issue do nothing but deteriorate the relationship among U.S., Korea, and Japan. Such movement only alters the situation to the advantage of North Korea and China.

We Japanese, who place a high value on the importance of historical facts as well as U.S.-Japan relationship, therefore protest decisively against the resolution regarding comfort women that is to be submitted to the New York state legislature.

We know that American people cherish and esteem fairness, justice, and truth. We hope that you will make a truthful, fair, and objective judgment on this issue.

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I am writing this message to you on behalf of many concerned Japanese.

I read a Korean internet news that “State Senator Tony Avella and Assemblyman Charles Lavine want Japanese government to apologize for the forced prostitution of women , or “comfort women”, serving the Japanese military during World War Ⅱ, and will submit their demand in a resolution to the New York legislature.” And, according to Jan 17th edition of Sankei, one of the Japanese leading newspapers, they have submitted the concurrent resolution.

The term “comfort women” refers simply to prostitutes in wartime. But Koreans have long been promoting a false version of history that Japan abducted hundreds of thousands of Korean women and coerced them into sexual services for Japanese soldiers outside of Japan during World War Ⅱ. This is, for practical and logical reasons, a fictitious version of history.

Japanese government conducted careful investigations and examination of the related documents and listened to the testimony of witnesses from both Japanese and Korean. Based on their careful research, Japanese government officially denied enforceability. And still, Japanese government have made public apologies for former comfort women’s hard experiences.

Despite apologies taken places privately and by the Japanese government, the compensation for former comfort women, or other efforts such as Asian Women’s Fund, Koreans has no intention of forgiveness.

Koreans’ activities such as building comfort women memorials lead to unnecessary racial conflict and suffering of people of Japanese ancestry, and perpetrate the distorted truth to American citizens who are not familiar with this controversial issue between Japan and Korea.

I would like you to know these two petitions to the White House have reached more than 30,000 signatures and still getting more.

Remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan.

To know more about the comfort women issue, please visit the following websites.

What is the “Comfort Women Issue?”

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2015

Mr. Komori of Japanese newspaper being interviewed on the comfort women issue for the PBS series

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2535

GEISHA, TONY BLAIR & COMFORT WOMEN

http://sakura.a.la9.jp/japan/?page_id=2556

We Japanese are strongly against NY state comfort women resolution. We believe that the American people cherish and enthusiastically defend fairness, justice and the truth. We hope that you will make a truthful, fair and objective judgment in regards to this issue.

Without affording any evidence on the forcible recruitments said to be done by Japanese Imperial Army as yet, and without affording any authorizer of the estimation of 200,000 women said to be coerced as yet, you decided again the Resolution J304-2013. I am really upset against your awful irresponsibility which justifies that the Resolutions are nothing but to humiliate Japan, Japanese ancestors and Japanese citizens

Then I would like to propose to revise the Resolution J304-2013 in the following words Let’s replace the word Japan by USA.
Then the content of this revised Resolution is a real fact including 200,000 victims of Japanese women quite contrary to the fabricated comfort women story.
As proof of this fact, there are full of evidences, many testimonies of Japanese prostitutes alive and of their fatherless children and witnesses. You can be afforded as much as you wish. If you visit Japan, I will guide you to the cemetery for GI babies (fatherless babies) who were killed by those who concerned including American soldiers, as socially undesirable existence or to hide crime of rape, of whom the number amounts to about 1000 only in Yokohama.

WHEREAS, the government of (Japan) USA, during its (colonial and wartime) occupation of (Asia and the Pacific Islands) Japan, from (the 1930s) 1945 through the duration of its occupation after WW2, commissioned the acquisition of young women-estimated to be more than 200,000-for the sole purpose of sexual slavery to (the Imperial Armed Forces) GHQ ,General Headquarters ,who became known to the world as (ianfu) panpan or “(comfort women) simply prostitute”; and

WHEREAS, the “(comfort women) panpan prostitution” system of forced military prostitution is considered unprecedented in its cruelty and magnitude and is one of the largest cases of human trafficking in the 20th century; and

WHEREAS, many surviving (comfort women) Japanese women have testified that they were kidnapped by (Imperial Japanese soldiers) GHQ soldiers and forced to serve as prostitutes, often enduring cruelty such as gang rapes, forced abortions, humiliation and sexual violence, resulting in mutilation, death, suicide, or permanent health damage.

I should add one story that you must not forget.
According to the 20th century’s top 100 news stories by AP, “United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki” is listed as a head story.
I think the drop of atomic bomb is the very unprecedented crime that no one can justify.
Do you agree with me?
Do you know where the center of explosion in Hiroshima was?
Do you believe in the lie that the drop of atomic bomb was necessary to end WW2?
The truth is that the aim of the drop was for an experiment for massacre.

The center of explosion of atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a primary school.

I am writing this mail on behalf of all the Japanese who are concerned with the current U.S.-Japan relations.

I’d like to express my deep disappointment at the New York State Senate adopting the resolution J304-2013: Memorializing a Memorial Monument in the State of New York that pays tribute to those who have become known to the world as ‘Comfort Women’

We totally cannot understand current NY City’s Anti-Japan action although almost all Japanese loves NY City.

If you want to discontinue our relatioinship between US-Japan, please inform it officailly.

Taking this opportunity, I would like to inoform you of almost all Japanese frustration as following reason.

1. Unfair viewpoint

Why you blame only Japanese?

We would like to ask you not to forget Korean army’s barbaious act in Vietnamese war.

They raped and killed 300,000 Vietnamese girls and there are 30,000 half Korean and half Vietnam children in Vietnam. We call them “Lai Dai Han”. I think you know this issue very well.

And also, the population of Korea at that time was roughly 23,000,000 (in 1943). Pease let us know how to abduct 200,000 girls. (If it were USA, 2,000,000 girls)

If you want to blame Japanese comfort women system, please establish Lai Dai Han Monument next to the comfort women monument as the fairness for all ethnic in US.

2. International low viewpoint

Next, we would like to explain why your action is unfair in the sprit of the law viewpoint.

This action is serious violation of “Japan-Korea Basic Relaion treaty” in 1965. Japan and Korea agreed that we finalized all the problem in World War 2 forever and perfectly under this treaty. We paid 800 million US$ including 300 million US$ without compensation. 800 million US$ is more than double of Korean National Budget at that time. By using this money, Korea realized their miracle economic growth after WW2. (Korea used this money not for personal compensation in domestic but for their infrastructure.)

And also, we think USA action is also a violation of San-Francisco Treaty of Peace with Japan in 1951. We finalized WW2 at this timing perfectly.

If you wants to attack Japanese during WW2 issue, it means Japan also can ask applogy and compensation of Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You killed more than 300,000 Japanese including women, girls, and chidren. I think Atomic Bomb was biggest holocaust in 20 century because this was living body test of new weapon. You also killed roughly 100,000 Japanese citizens in Tokyo by using Incendiary bombs. If you want to build Comfort women monument, why don’t you build Atomoic bomb monument next to the unfiar Korean monument?

I belive allmost all Japanese likes and respect USA and NYC. We respect your fairness and freindship. Why you want to collapse our good relationship by supporting / discounting specific ethnic? Almost all Japanese are afraid that your action will cause serious bad impact to our future relationship between US and Japan.

Please understand not only ultra-left Japanese but also ultra-right Japanese want to collapse US-Japan alliance.

I am very sorry for my rude e-mail, but please understand almost all Japanese are reluctant Korean unfair action to us with USA. I don’t think your action is good for Korean and Japanese future relationship, also.

Please don’t be unfair for specific ethnic. Please don’t judge our history by using current common sense.

This is current Japanese common sense. We wish you remove all the unfair monumate in your state immediately.